>>3735444I like doing that sometimes and it's a different thing depending on what you do. Listening to documentaries, interviews or stories while working, I end up having like a sort of map of the thing I was listening to. I can look at a painting and tell you roughly what I was listening to while I was working on a certain section.
It's probably not very different from working on your own and concentrating on the work. Your mind will wander anyhow and you will more or less consciously have conversations in your mind or think about recent events in your life. Listening to something while working is basically just giving you input from outside to think about and it can be very beneficial. I like using that time to listen to audiobooks, biographies, philosophy and so on.
I talked to a girl who is also an artist and asked her if she could remember what she was listening to at the time from looking at her own drawings and she said she can't remember at all. So that's not a particularly universal experience, I guess.
